This year the Delhi Horticulture Club has

been a totally fun experience for me and my

classmates in the horticulture and landscape

programs. We, the club, were very engaged

in fund raising, community service, travel-

ling and learning. Below I have summarized

some of the major activities we did this year.

At this point I‟d like to say thanks to my

friends Brandi Carufe, Keegan

Bush, Kara Swartz, AJ Davis, Al-

exander Killmeier, Dan Glogowski

and Patrick Dolan for making this a

good year!

Bonsai Presentation

Early in April the Delhi Horticul-

ture Club sponsored a presentation

about the art of Bonsai. Pauline

Muth of PFM Bonsai Studio in

West Charlton NY was our guest

speaker. Mrs. Muth presented infor-

mation about the history and forms of

bonsai. She then gave a quick demon-

Volume 12 , Issue 2

Delhi Horticulture Club News by Matt Robinson, Club President

Spr ing 2012

Our Golf & Plant Sci-

ence Degree Programs:

• BBA, Golf Course Man-

agement, Superintendent Program.

• BBA, Athletic & Sports

Field Management

• AAS, Horticulture.

• AAS, Landscape Con-

tracting.

• AAS, Golf Course Oper-

ations.

• AAS, Turf Management

Horticulture Club News

1

Athletic & Sports 1

Turf Seminar 1

National Turf Bowl

2

Landscape De-sign & Mgt.

3

New 4-year Athletic & Sports Field Management Degree

The Golf and Plant Sci-

ences Department will admit students into the new four-year Bachelors of Business Administra-tion (BBA) degree in Ath-letic and Sports Field Management. The field of athletic field, school grounds, and municipal complex management continues to grow in New York State and the nation, and employers are looking to hire well trained individ-uals. Previously, students interested in pursuing a

degree in athletic field man-agement were limited to ei-ther a two year Turf Manage-ment degree or transfer into the Golf Course Manage-ment track. The new pro-gram mirrors the BBA in Golf Course Management, com-bining existing departmental strengths in agronomic, tech-nical, and business areas and with new class offers focusing on the complexities of athletic field and facilities management. For more in-formation please visit us on the web at www.delhi.edu.

GOLF & PLANT SCIENCES

stration on the techniques of creating a bonsai

plant before allowing the audience to work on

their own. Mrs. Muth worked with each partici-

pant and gave them advice on how to “sculpt”

their trees. In the end, everyone had the begin-

nings of a bonsai that they could be proud of.

(Horticulture Club Cont pg 2)

SAVE THE DATE! Come and join us on Tuesday June 5th for a half day semi-nar and golf outing at the College Golf Course at Delhi. The day includes demonstra-tion talks on reel sharpening and maintenance (Mr. Steve Tait -Delhi), improving dollar spot control with fungicides (Dr. John Inguagiato- UConn), optimizing your irri-gation (Mr. Cory Metlar- Rainbird) and annual blue-grass weevil monitoring pro-grams (Dr. Ben McGraw- Delhi). Pesticide credits are available. The golf tourna-ment will feature a 4-man scramble, lunch, raffles, and prizes. For more information or sponsorship visit: www.nysta.org. We hope to see you there.

Bonsai Presentation

Save the DATE!!

NYSTA Seminar and Golf Outing at Delhi

Tuesday June 5

SUNY Delhi

may volunteer for com-

munity service. This year

our club worked on a va-

riety of jobs around cam-

pus. We transplanted a

tree (which was in the

way of construction work)

at Sanford Hall, we

pruned overgrown shrubs

around the campus entry

sign, and we enhanced

an existing shrub bed

with transplanted peren-

nials that also were slat-

ed for removal in front of

Sanford Hall. Each year

we look forward to partici-

pating in this event for it

is a great way to give

back to our campus and

community.

In February, six Turf Club

members from SUNY-Delhi competed in the na-tional Turf Bowl Competi-tion, held in conjunction with the annual Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) meeting in Las Vegas, NV. It has been several years since Delhi has been represented at the national Turf Bowl. This year, two teams, one 4-man team and a 2-man competed. Teams were quizzed on their knowledge of turfgrass biology, pest management, general maintenance pro-cedures, and their ability to solve situational problems. The SUNY Delhi “A” Team (Cameron Cooper, Ben-jamin Dewan, Tim Bruno, and Nicholas Pennella) were able to place in the

top 1/3 of all teams, placing 34

th overall, and 11

th in

case studies category. Julia Ward, the advisor to the Turf Club was instru-mental to preparing the students to compete in the Turf Bowl, including help-ing the club study and raise enough funds to assist with their expenses. “I was re-ally proud of our students- both how they performed in the competition and how they conducted themselves during the week. We didn’t really know what to expect on the exam, so I think what we learned this year will help us improve next year.” Turf Club members raised by funds through leaf raking, alumni and su-perintendent association donations (thank you NEGCSA!) and completing community service. We

look forward to com-peting next year!

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PLANET Student Career Days is a huge event ded-icated to college students studying in programs re-lated to the green indus-try. PLANET Student Ca-reer Days includes com-petitions, a career fair with employers from around the country and numerous informational workshops. This year the event was held at Kansas State Uni-versity in Manhattan, KS. Keegan Bush, Alexan-der Killmeier, Patrick Dolan and I were the “team” for Delhi. Some of the competitions in which we participated included Woody Plant Identifica-tion, Wood Construction, Paver Installation and Planting Installation. On our way to Kansas State University we stopped at the Jefferson National Expansion Me-morial (Gateway to the West), in St. Louis, MS and the Missouri Bo-tanical Gardens. Both were fabu-lous to see and enjoyed by all. Birgitta Brophy and Julia Ward, advisors to the club, were the staff that accom-panied us on this trip. PLANET Day of Service On April 20,

2012, the club

participated in the

PLANET Day of

Service. This is a

date set by

PLANET, where

college students Alex Killmeier, Matt Robinson, Keegan Bush and Patrick Dolan

P L A N E T H O R T C L U B N E W S B Y M A T T R O B I N S O N C O N T .

Delhi Students Compete in National Turf Bowl Competition

Gol f & Plant Science Programs Page 3

L A N D S C A P E D E S I G N & M A N A G E M E N T

By Birgitta Brophy LA

A student service

learning oppor-tunity presented itself this past fall to the students of the Planting De-sign class. The Delaware Coun-ty Historical As-sociation con-tacted Birgitta Brophy, in the Landscape and Design Program, about the possibility of assisting them in developing a conceptual master plan of their facility. As part of the de-sign process, historic and environ-mental research, site visits, a meeting with the New York State Dept. of Transportation Assistant Regional Engineer and the several board mem-bers allowed students a good basis from which to develop initial design concepts. The Board Members were looking for new ideas in improving the vehicular and pedestrian circulation, visibility along the state highway, building layout for existing and new buildings and landscaping comple-mentary of the historic nature of the site were part of the client needs. In December four final design concepts were presented to several Board members. Design solutions proposed the moving of a church owned by the Association to the current site, creat-ing a “Village Green” in which visitors could easily circulate from one part of the property to another, incorporating rural community elements like or-chards and meadows and a new en-trance that would allow visitors to pass through an old toll gate house as would have been done when travel-ling the Catskill Turnpike in the 1800’s. Our students were praised for their professional presentations and solutions. Students involved included Keegan Bush, Daniel Glogowski, Alexander Killmeier, and Matthew Robinson.

Campus Beautifica-tion: The Delhi Beautifica-tion Com-mittee has been very instrumen-tal in en-hancing the visual and physical aspects of Delhi Col-lege. This committee

is comprised of faculty and staff from all areas of campus. One of the Committee's duties is to review up-coming construction projects. Often the Committee is able to provide rec-ommendations, based on the groups combined knowledge and prior expe-riences, which save the campus money and other resources. For ex-ample, this year many shrubs were saved from the renovation work be-ing done on Sanford Hall. The exist-ing shrubs were balled and bur-lapped so that they could be trans-planted to other locations on campus by students in the Introduction to Horticulture Class. This same class also planted numerous grape hya-cinths and narcissus bulbs, in key locations, to provide much needed early spring color on campus and learn the process of spring bulb planting. These bulbs were pur-chased by the Beautification Com-mittee. The cooperative bond that has been formed between our de-partment and the committee has pro-vided hands-on learning experiences to students, cost savings to the cam-pus and significant improvements to the Campus environment. Kathy Gillooley and Julia Ward were di-rectly involved in these efforts both as committee members and Intro-duction to Horticulture lab instructor and instructional support associate respectively. Thanks ladies!

PLANET Day of Service, Brandi Carufe and

Matt Robinson working on campus.

Centennial Tree Planting Please be sure to note the current

Centennial Tree Planting effort

underway supported by the Beauti-

fication Committee. It is our goal to

plant 100 new trees for the 2013

Centennial Celebration of SUNY

Delhi. We hope you can help us

continue to “green” Delhi! For more

information visit: http://

www.delhi.edu/administration/

facilities/beautification.php

Alumni and Friends of the Golf

& Plant Science Program

We would like to request your email

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can make announcements that may be

of interest to you.

Please send your email (and any news

you may have) to Charlie Tarrants at

tarrancb@delhi.edu Thanks

Back issues of the newsletter are

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know what you are up to.

If you have any memories of your

days at Delhi that you would like to

share. Feel free to send them to us

also.